Doing QotD from my hospital bed, I’m really a sad bugger.😂

I remember it in the news

A Pompey (Portsmouth) speed controller was the first published circuit diagram for building your own ESC, and it worked. It used what looked like a large top hat type transister with about 6 wires coming out. If memory serves.
At the time we had Bob's boards and very expensive commercial esc's. Like a good week's earnings.
I think there were 4 off OC29 power transitors with the circuit components mounted on Vero board. It was before we all got to know Duel in line integrated circuits or 'chips as we now call them.

Rather large losses in the o/p cct. but otherwise they were great.

There were 3 good RC circuits that came out and that was one of them the others were the relay cct that switched out the power transistors to connect the drive motor to the battery direct at full speed.
The other was the battery eliminator circuit that was in an early issue of the Model Cars magazine, an off shoot of Model Maker.
This was a simple power transistor (small black ones) and a Zener diode plus some stabilising ccts. and I also fitted a red LED. I made at least half a dozen of those.

There is no need for the relay circuit now as the voltage drop across FET's is negligible, and the current esc's I use now are 'different' (?) and has over taken my knowledge.

Roy

Good luck with the operation. Ed. Roy, A Pompey esc? What's one of them? Are they a home build?

Hi Ed, hope all goes well for you in hospital.

I have just read through the Titan tug thread. I also made a Pompey esc. Mine was buried in a small tobacco tin which also worked as the heat sink. I lent it to a friend for a while and when I asked how it was going on, he said he had sold the boat, did not think you would want it back!

He was old (but younger than I am now!) and he would ask to borrow magazines from my archive I learnt to ask for them back after a week or so, as the first lot I lent him, he through them out with the rubbish and I retrieved them from his dustbin!

In those days I was gainfully employed and went on to assemble a 6 channel Micron Tx and Rx. The Micron receivers were the best you could have, much better than the rather crude Futaba one. This was part of the rare side of 27Mhtz, being FM but I still have 3 or 4 crystal sets.

The Futaba receiver never really worked properly and it was sent off for repair. It did not work when returned, and I phoned the company (no Internet then) and said you have tuned it to 35Mhtz not the 27 Mhtz I put in my letter.

There was a lot of denial and when he had finished I asked if he wanted the 35 Mhtz crystal back that was in the receiver?
It was repaired retuned etc but as I said was not much good.

I think the Futaba brushed alluminium transmitter was the best example of design and pleasure to hold. Fleet copied it very well though.

Roy

Blimey, this quiz has more repeats than the BBC!

I wish you a speedy recovery, EdW. When you're well, you can answer today's questions.

The topic has already been covered but the question was different.

Probably won’t be trying to answer questions for a while, going into hospital for an operation tomorrow.😬

What a differcult question. All could have been right

Duh... Answer is a dead giveaway!

Another repeat question...

Living near the solent helped me today

Luckily for us, this time the three wrong options chosen by the AI ​​were truly inconsistent.

Good morning all, 5.30am and off to work . Bananas are working as I got it right. All is good with the world. Have an awesome day everyone 😀

I wasn't sure so I just went for the longest answer again.🤔
Just seemed to be the most logical as well.
Suppose luck again. 👍
Snakes and ladders .👎 I maybee clibing it again but I'll soon slide down the back of the snake again.

I found being in the RAF for just 4 years over all was good. You are going to meet some difficult people in any job. I came across just one, he was in charge of us technicians but not one himself so probably found it difficult to cope. Discipline was not really a problem.
Roy

A tip: If you're unfamiliar with these regulations, just use your father's common sense to get the answer right.

Hi roycv,
There were about 36 in each class that I was in. Yes it was just a Secondry School, they are not called that anymore. I was at the age where I just missed conscription.

I don't think I could have taken the dicipline, but who knows. If I had been mad to join a service I think I would have liked to join the Navy like my father had been in.

He always seemed to be ashamed that he was a stoker in the Navy.
But I have his Navy papers from when he left the navy. He was a Cheif Stoker and an experienced Navy Diver. If ne had never been down in the bowels of a ship shoveling coal those ships wouldn't have moved. He also said he only got an extra 3/- a week for being an extra diver. That's a risk in iit's self ?? What's to be ashamed of.

I worked as a butched for 7.5 yrs, a Dry Cleaning Opperater/ Hoffman Presser 25 yrs and a London Transport Double Dekker Bus Driver for 17.5 yrs. 👎👎worked my full 50yrs.👎👎
The amount of times I was told by schools kids your just a poxy Bus Driver.

And a full time retiree for noe 10yrs, 👍👍

I see you was lucky enough to retire early. 👍👍👍

I had algebra thrashed into me at school, got a maths O level level, then promptly forgot it all. I use the basic stuff still Ohm's law calculations, Trig, that sort of stuff. Nowadays I can barely add up my shopping list and barely spell Algebra!🤔

Hi Boatshed again. You had all the ability to do well but like with so many others the school system failed you. Being able to read before going to school is an acomplishment you can be proud of. Regular caning suggests you were bored and were in need of inspiration, did you have 40 or so pupils in the class?
The teacher has a discipline problem managing that number. In industry there would be a dozen workers per supervisor. Although I did manage the work of around 18 - 20 guys, that only worked because of trust and distributed responsibility.

I went to a Grammar school with 100 intake per year. The Headmaster would take the top 15 or so for his own class and the majority of us were trained in maths and English to be the clerk fodder in insurance companies and Banks.

I was fortunate when I was called up for National Service and was tested for ability and was in their top category (just 2 of us from about 100), some had been creamed off already for foreign language training and Law.
I took it as a second chance and learnt electronics which set me up for a career. Without going into the Military I would have been a disgruntled and unhappy clerk and by now almost certainly dead!

I was the despair of my father until I found work in the computer industry and he finally asked me what my job was. He could not get his head around it but as I never got sacked for incompetence he had to accept that I was doing OK.

I am 88 this year, and plan on living forever! After all who is going to tell me I told you, you would not make it!
regards to all
Roy

Algebra was mentioned possibly one of the least used of the school studies. However, a few years ago I found a once per year use for it. We have a club exhibition each year and we used to sell adult and child tickets. Then our Treasurer decided a ticket for all and apologised that we would no longer know how many adults and children visited.

When he had added up the ticket income, I asked for ticket numbers and a 2 minute calculation gave me the number of each. He said I had guessed, but I used algebra with a simultaneous equation to solve it. You have another 'known' which is the cost of admission for each and they make up a nice simple equation.

Roy

Hi Boatshed I enjoyed your posting very much. When I managed some engineers of varying ability in the computer field, it was a challenge to me to find a talent in each of them and utilise it. Very few had 'school learning' mainly because they had several different interests which took their time. But I found a talent in all of them which got them respect with their peers.

They were all good company as well. I pursued a happy ship policy, if there was no work to be done we could sit and gossip. This plus I also joined in with the dirty work, (cleaning printers the size of a small car) had me accepted, well I had been doing the same job as them already.
I lost my cool just once in public when a guy decided he would do a job the next day rather than go nearly 2 hours before end of normal work time. I think some took note!

Respect for all, is the key to new managers. Later I had degree level guys as staff and they were just as green and innocent. I felt sorry for the senior managers as they were just told to do what they did which was just implementing ideas from above and worrying about a bonus.

Retirement is one of the best jobs ever! I am over qualified for it now, as it is the longest job I have ever had at 34 years.

Roy

I have never seen a sextant and so I wouldn't evven know how to use one,.
And as far as ALGEBRA's go I didn't leanr anything about them at school. I am ashamed to admit.
So I just went for the longest answer. in the hopes that it was the correct one.
And it was. YIPPEEE !!!!

Yes I have to admit at school I didn't take a lot of notice and failed to listen and learn.

I could read and write before I went to primary school, there was 3 of us by the time I started school so we all got to be taught. There endd up 6 sibling in all and that was the same we taught each other how to.
I was given the cane at school probably at least once a week, at my secondry school.
It taught me something, I suppose, Respect and minimal dicipline.


But all I wanted to to was to get away from school and earn momey, I took notice in woodwork , metal work and technical drawring as I enjoyed those subjects.
But what good was those with out maths??
Yes I could add up and tack away. I was taught my times tables also before I went to school.
I started working in a Butchers shop when I was just fourteen years and eleven months old.
He told me that if He thought I was going to be worth keeping on when I got to my 15th birhtday then I had a full time job. He did keep me on.
But even if he hadn't I still had 3 other jobs that I could have started towork at.
If he hadn't I would have taken a Job in a garage that was going to teach me how to be a mechanic and learn to drive when I was old enough.

Sorry to go on but I wasn't a complete DUNCE and have never been out of work in all of my working life. I learn to drive as soon as I was 17 and passed my driving test 1st time within 4
months of starting to learn.

I have owned a boat of my own and never seen a sextant or used one.
The answer was just going for the longest and a fluke at getiing it correct.
The 2 pictures are the 2 boats that I have owned.
I don't have any pictures of my first boat thatwa a small speed boat on a trailer just a fun boat.
The Shetland 535 was my second boatI trailed that for a while then got a mooring on the Norfolk Broards. The second picture is my third boat which I had for 20 years on the Norfolk Boards up until 3 years ago.
She was an 1962 Ancas Sea Queen. Built in Norway for the Noweigian Fjords origiinly.
She had a 1600c Volvo engine with an AQ80 outdrive. That was one of the very firsrt ever outdrive built.
It was laughed at when it went to the Boat Show, but it didn;t rake long before Mercury took th hint and started to build them once they saw that they had won boat race with them.

Yes Nick, you said it right, hahahaha.

Self answering question....

EdW you took the words right out of my mouth (I don't know if that's the right expression), you read my mind and it's the same reasoning I did.

Having used a sextant I knew the answer. There was an obvious clue when the question referred to the index arm, only C refers to “Index”.

While I'd love to tell you i knew this , I had no idea so went with the longest answer

Hi Boarshed, Butchers backslang further down the thread...

I have worked as a butcher but only with the navy.
I've not heard of this slang, can you give some examples?

Hi roycv,
I missed that question of the day regarding the rhyming slang.
Sadly I was in the hospital.

But does anyone one here ever worked as a Butcher??
And heard the Butchers back slang.

I was just 14 and a half when Im starrted there and when I heard things that was being
said I didn't know what the hell they were saying.

They basicly say the words back wards and it sounds weird. That way the public in the shop
do not know that they are talking about them.
They come out with a full sentance of it at times.

Cor blimy is a contraction and poor (Cockney) rendition of "God blind me".

Some money terms not rhyming slang.
grand - £1000 everyone knows that.
kosher readies - unlaundered money (I love that one, kosher meaning genuine)!
monkey - £500
pony - £25
potless - to be skint
score - £20

Roy

Phil, I've come to realize that these sorts of lapses in the counting system happen from time to time.
I've also had this happen in the past, where I've responded, but the box would be marked as "no reply."
Today you answered correctly (judging by the colored lines), but yesterday you didn't respond.

Cor blimey just seen the post on ryming slang would adam and eve it .
Philuk👍

Looks like i had a mark against me yeaterday or the day before i thouhht i got the questions right i dont understand whats going on
Philuk🤔

Yet another 'cold barbecue' 🙄

😎

Hmm - not sure - the only northern gannets I have seen, have been well clear of powered ships/boats, but ok with sailing boats, and dive from height to catch the fish underwater.

Well would you Adam any Eve it 🤔.
Got it right this morning 🌄

back slang in. back slang s' there and bad (Is there a typo?) Should I be ringing up Bletchley?

Ok, Canadian slang:

A timmies
A loonie
A toonie

Canadians, you are over-qualified to answer!😉

Some Cockney Rhyming slang.😉
Dirt - Dicky dirt - Shirt.
Cobblers - Cobblers awls - Balls. (Derogatory🙉 As in 'What a load of cobblers' etc.)
Roots - Daisy roots - Boots.
Dog and bone - Phone.
Mince pies - Eyes.
Bees and honey - Money.
Pork pie - Lie. Porkies - Lies.
Bacon and Eggs - Legs.
Brown bread - Dead. (More common Down Under?)
Plates of meat - Feet.
Bristol city - Titty. Bristols - Tits / Breasts.
Whistle and flute - Suit.
Jam (or Raspberry) tart - Fart🙊😮😠

And so on😉😎
There's even an ATM in East London with a 'language' option of Rhyming slang!😮
See pic.

Dab dna ereht's gnals kcab, ni gnals kcab".
Back slang. Any guesses?

Idiot Canadian here😮!!

Tally Ho. . . Let's Go??

I can see this could become addictive

Many more difficult ones to figure out, as in get your 'aris' out of here!!

(aris) Aristotle - Bottle
Bottle and glass - Arse.....

And then there's money - A Pony, Monkey, Fiver, Tenner, Score, Bulls eye, Ton, Tanner, Half Dollar, and so on... It's a whole different 'English'

Apples and pears, stairs. Butcher's, as in Butcher's hook, look. Brahms, as in Bhrams and Lizst, pissed (drunk). Trouble, as in Trouble and Strife, wife and so on.

Thanks so much for the explanations (I also received them via PM), much appreciated.
I never would have figured it out on my own.
Scooby-Doo reminds me of a cartoon I watched as a kid.

'Scooby Doo', more often just 'I ain't got a scooby' is rhyming slang for 'I ain't got a clue'. Spreads mostly through the medium of television. Most two word phrases tend to lose their second word (the one that rhymes with the original word), making it even more difficult for people who don't know it works. For example: Plates mean feet (from plates of meat). I hope some other examples will follow from other UK based members

Very good Alessandro; if you didn't know you've just said it. Often used instead of saying " I don't have a clue ".
Have an awesome day, hoping to start some building soon 😀

Hi Doogle, sorry, but what do you mean by Scooby Doo?
I don't understand what you mean.
Have a good day too.

Didn't have a scooby doo, now with the explanation I understand.
Have a great day everyone 😀